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Download full textEgelson, Paula; Harman, Patrick; Hood, Art; Achilles, C. M. – 2002
Landmark studies in the late 1970s and 1980s, including Tennessee's Project STAR (Student Teacher Achievement Ratio), raised the nation's awareness that reduced class size does have a positive impact on students' academic achievement. This report provides a sketch of class-size reduction's history in a prefatory overview. Chapter 1 describes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedDelany, Marcia; Toburen, Laura; Hooton, Becky; Dozier, Ann – Educational Leadership, 1998
Distressed by their students' reading failure rate, teachers at two Georgia schools developed a parallel block-scheduling plan that allows for whole-class instruction, direct-instruction miniclasses, and enrichment labs for all students. Success depends on matching creative, resourceful teachers to the enrichment lab positions. Over the past two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Block Scheduling, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities
